@eddiejennings said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:

@jaredbusch Wow.

Was an initial seed of a server. So totally expected when the WAN pipe is only 10mbps up.

120GB of real data on a thin provisioned 500GB vhdx.

@dims said in Is the 3-2-1 rule antiquated?:

the majority of the previous cases of implementing such solutions indicates that the most popular would be the one where the data would first be replicated between 2 hosts, on site and one off prem.

Yes, because normally that is insant, you'd not want to wait for the WAN copy before making the local one.